That's a lot of money for just 15 months of work. That's more than most people get for building and selling a startup. That's more money than the highest-paid athlete in the world, Tiger Woods, made last year. Woods got $83 million.

Upon his termination, a portion of each of his equity award vested as well (all values using yesterday's closing stock price of $41.07):

Severance payments (1x salary and target bonus): $1,140,000.

Value of accelerated performance option award: $20,973,716.

Value of accelerated initial RSU award: $9,794,117.

Value of accelerated make-whole RSU award: $32,647,046.

Total accelerated equity value: $64,554,879

Grand Total of both amounts: $109,345,330

Equilar's director of Governance Research, Aaron Boyd tells us this based on the assumption De Castro was fired without cause. Boyd thinks it's a "safe bet" that he was fired without cause based on the language Mayer used in her memo announcing his ouster.